Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:48:05 -0400 From: "Ben Goodwin" <ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com> To: "Kent Ho" <kent@outblaze.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I can't seems to compile mrtg using ports. Message-ID: <00cf01bf146c$f904d450$6a477392@dsg.hamsterville.ultranet.com> References: <38018F0F.A9B116DF@outblaze.com>
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Looks like you don't have write permission in the /usr/ports/distfiles
directory. You'll need to have read/write access to that directory and to
the mrtg port directory itself ... You might as well just do it as root...
-=| Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Ho" <kent@outblaze.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:17 AM
Subject: I can't seems to compile mrtg using ports.
> Hi all,
>
> I can't seems to compile mrtg using ports, I got this error message when
> i do "make install".
>
> >> mrtg-2.7.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
> >> Attempting to fetch from
http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/pub/.
> fetch: empty reply from ee-staff.ethz.ch
> >> Attempting to fetch from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> fetch: mrtg-2.7.2.tar.gz: Permission denied
> >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Please check to see what is the problem. many thanks...
>
> --
> Kent Ho
> Technical Staff
> Outblaze Ltd.
>
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